the life-giving water upon the king, standing,
or prostrate, before him. In performing this ceremony, he
was always assisted by another god, generally by Sit,
sometimes by Thot or Anubis.

The latter were numerous. Sometimes, as in the case of Harkhobi, Horus
of Khobiu,[*] a geographical qualification was appended to the generic
term of Horus, while specific names, almost invariably derived from
the parts which they were supposed to play, were borne by others. The
sky-god worshipped at Thinis in Upper Egypt, at Zarit and at Sebennytos
in Lower Egypt, was called Anhuri. When he assumed the attributes of
Ra, and took upon himself the solar nature, his name was interpreted as
denoting the conqueror of the sky. He was essentially combative. Crowned
with a group of upright plumes, his spear raised and ever ready to
strike the foe, he advanced along the firmament and triumphantly
traversed it day by day.[**] The sun-god who at Medamofc Taud and Erment
had preceded Amon as ruler of the Theban plain, was also a warrior,
and his name of Montu had reference to his method of fighting. He was
depicted as brandishing a curved sword and cutting off the heads of his
adversaries.[***]

* _Harkhobi, Haramkhobiu_ is the Horus of the marshes
(_khobiu_) of the Delta, the lesser Horus the son of Isis,
who was also made into the son of Osiris.

** The right reading of the name was given as far back as
Lepsius. The part played by the god, and the nature of the
link connecting him with Shu, have been explained by
Maspero. The Greeks transcribed his name Onouris, and
identified him with Ares.

*** Montu preceded Amon as god of the land between Kus and
Gebelen, and he recovered his old position in the Graeco-
Roman period after the destruction of Thebes. Most
Egyptologists, and finally Brugsch, made him into a
secondary form of Amon, which is contrary to what we know of
the history of the province. Just as Onu of the south
(Erment) preceded Thebes as the most important town in that
district, so Montu had been its most honoured god. Heer
Wiedemann thinks the name related to that of Amon and
derived from it, with the addition of the final _tu_.

Each of the feudal gods naturally cherished pretensions to universal
dominion, and proclaimed himself the suzerain, the father of all the
gods, as the local prince was the suzerain, the fa